as for people not caring about the chickens, i think people should be more interested in the millions of people dying in Africa before the chickens in the pens. sure the poor little bastards are treated bad in some cases, but i think people are a slightly higher importance than the humble chook. know what i mean?
I certainly do, and I agree, the plight of people is a lot higher for me then the plight of animals. Other then some Green Peace/Sea Shepard stuff I do all charities I am affiliated with are invariably human in nature. I care about animals, and am concerned by animal cruelty, but sadly there are only so many hours in the day.
Which Is why I suspect that's why PETA is the way it is. I have only met one member of it, but he was one of those "resists everything, rebel without a cause" kind of guy who loved his own voice and wanted to believe he was blazing trails, fighting the best fight - the problem for him when it came to human causes was everybody is doing them, there are so many human occupied charities. Ergo, there is little room for standing out in the crowd, being looked at, being the centre of attention.
So he is in PETA, who get a lot of attention. Sure, he might actually care about what he is doing, but that's not enough - it's the being visible thing that gets him going. Indeed, some of the PETA stuff I have heard/seen just seem to smack of the tried hard, "hey look at me" kind of syndrome. Not saying they don't sometimes have a point, but still.